Summer Hunt Authors Announced!

ANNOUNCING THE SUMMER

YA SCAVENGER HUNT

AUTHORS!


This summer the Hunt will have two teams (RED & BLUE) of 27 authors each. We've added several new authors with some very exciting material. I'm really looking forward to not only getting to know these authors better but adding to my book collection! I will be on the BLUE team.







THE BLUE TEAM




HEATHER ANASTASIU



 







JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT



 





 
GWENDA BOND



 





 
TERA LYNN CHILDS



 







ANGELA CORBETT



 





 
 
GINA DAMICO



 






ED DEHORATIUS



 







LEIGH FALLON



 





 
MARLEY GIBSON



 







SHAUNA GRANGER



 





 
CYNTHIA HAND



 







NANCY HOLDER



 





 
COLLEEN HOUCK



 







TARA HUDSON



 





 
DENISE JADEN



 







MIRANDA KENNEALLY



 





 
SUZANNE LAZEAR



 







JODI MEADOWS



 





 
ALEXANDRA MONIR



 







E.C. MYERS



 





 
ERICA O’ROURKE



 
AMY PLUM

 
 







CARRIE RYAN



 





 
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON



 







J.A. SOUDERS



 





 
VICTORIA STRAUSS



 







DEBBIE VIGUIE



 



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THE RED TEAM






JOSEPHINE ANGELINI



 





 
LEAH BOBET



 







LISA BURSTEIN



 





 
KRISTI COOK



 







JULIE CROSS



 





 
TRACY DEEBS



 







KIMBERLY DERTING



 





 
TARA FULLER



 







DAVID MACINNIS GILL



 








JANET GURTLER



 







RACHEL HARRIS



 








ELISSA J. HOOLE



 







AMALIE HOWARD



 








CORRINE JACKSON



 







STACEY KADE



 








JESSICA KHOURY



 







JONATHAN MABERRY



 








CLAIRE MERLE



 







COURTNEY ALLISON MOULTON



 








GREGG OLSEN



 







FIONA PAUL



 








LISSA PRICE



 







PETER ADAM SALOMON



 








JERI SMITH-READY



 







JESSICA SPOTSWOOD



 








TERI TERRY



 








LANI WOODLAND



 





Note from Colleen: I'm so excited about this hunt!

Leave a comment to tell me which books you are the most looking forward to.

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CRAFT CORNER
by
Suki Lotti





 



Email: Suki@colleenhouck.com

Relation to Colleen: Sister-in-Law 

 


I recently reminded myself how to crochet and that naturally gave me the idea for a color scheme for this clutch. Clutches are easy and quick to make. If you added a strap, you could have a hand bag or wristlet. They are also easy to change the look of by varying the stitch you use, the type of yarn, and even the size of your hook.











 


I call this the Ren Clutch. Original, yes? I'm so glad the store was mostly empty when I was buying the blue yarn. I had pictures on my phone of cobalt blue and walked back and forth between 5 aisles of yarn to decide which blue was the closest. The blue photographed a little bit darker than it actually is.









The side edging is a single crochet stitching.







Isn't that button perfect? The clutch measures approximately 4" x 9.5" and the flap is 2".





My daughter found a few items to put into the clutch. We could have fit more in there without it being too bulky or heavy!






Speaking of my daughter, isn't she adorable? She was so willing to be my model. It is just pure coincidence that she chose to wear her tiger dress on this particular day!






And please, ignore the background in both these pictures. It is almost embarrassing but obviously not embarrassing enough for me to retake the pictures! Such is life. I know you understand.



I made this clutch with worsted weight acrylic yarn in black, white, as-close-as-could-be cobalt blue, and one button. I used a 5.0mm hook (I think) and a large needle to sew on the button and weave in the ends. You can find the directions here.



Note from Colleen: Isn't my niece cute? I named the mermaid Kaeliora after her. The other nieces are jealous. They'd prefer to be mermaids too.



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COOKIE CORNER


Check out the video created by these Tiger fans making a batch of Ren's cookies. They look yummy!










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CREATURE CORNER
by 
Heather Lotti






Email: Heather@colleenhouck.com 

Relation to Colleen: Sister-in-Law 

Bio: Heather is a lover of art galleries, young adult fiction, and has a forced appreciation of legos (thanks to my two young boys who are now finally old enough not to eat them). I am a former school counselor who currently focuses most of my energies on making sure all household members eat their vegetables and have clean laundry. In my free moments I enjoy period romance movies, painting, and going for walks with the fam.
Stymphalian Birds


 
Stymphalian Birds, according to Mr. Kadam’s writings are, “Terrible flesh-eating birds with iron beaks, bronze claws, and toxic droppings. They usually live in large colonies.” That should be enough to make any heroine want to avoid them… but through a series of quests Kelsey must again outsmart a creepy creature. In order to get the “Divine Weaver’s Scarf” Kelsey and Kishan had to roll Stymphalian Bird eggs off of the scarf.


 



 
According to Greek legend, Hercules was to drive away a large flock of birds by a city named Stymphalos

(see http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles... for more info).



He first had to use a rattle to drive them out of the brush and then shot them with arrows.  "They are described in different ways, but most commonly as voracious birds of prey, which attacked even men, and which were armed with brazen wings, from which they could shoot out their feathers like arrows."

(Apollod. ii. 5. § 2; Paus. viii. 22. § 4; Hygin. Fab. 30 ; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. ii. 1053.)

Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

 
Stymphalian Birds are later encountered by the Argonauts… so hopefully they are not a creepy creature that Kelsey has to encounter again!


 



Stymphalian bird by ~DwarvenArchitect on deviantART

dwarvenarchitect.deviantart.com



 

Huge man-eating creatures with claws and beaks of brass.

reypastor.org







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DESTINY PUZZLE


Put together the puzzle to reveal a picture that inspired me as I wrote TIGER'S DESTINY.  When you are finished leave a comment on my blog with your time and be entered to win a bookmark! You don't have to be the fastest to win. My time was 6 minutes 10 seconds.





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That's it this week my friends. Have a great day!



Colleen